That the caterer's men have gone off "on a bust,"-
This comes with consecutive Junes.
But a pleasanter feature I have to narrate.
While friends o'er the edibles talk,
While the parson is forcing a battle on fate
By eating warm "ice " with a fork,
Belinda, by Spriggins, is taken in state
Down stairs, for a bit of a walk.
They stroll round the Yard, and evade as they can
The canker-worms' pendulous swing.
What they say is a secret, unless you should scan
In her face, that he asks her something
Which she does n't refuse. Then the ardent young man
Slips on her forefinger a ring.
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Class of 1890.